Long rectangular pink silk shawl. The shawl has a pale pink center and progresses to fuchsia ends. The top and bottom edges of the shawl have four horizontal bands that follow the same color progression as the center panel of the shawl. Both ends of the shawl are trimmed with a fuchsia band. There is a tag sewn into the upper left corner, "A.P. Phillips".
shawls
silk (textile)
Shawl
"A.P. Phillips"
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P882
Unknown
24 13/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1302
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